Cal State Fullerton’s Hank LoForte celebrates his solo homer in the tenth inning during the game 3 of an NCAA super regionals against Washington at Goodwin Field in Fullerton on Sunday, June 10, 2018. (Photo by Kyusung Gong/Contributing Photographer)

Cal State Fullerton pitcher Blake Workman, left, and Daniel Cope walks towards the mound after Washington outfielder Braiden Ward scores during the game 3 of an NCAA super regionals at Goodwin Field in Fullerton on Sunday, June 10, 2018. (Photo by Kyusung Gong/Contributing Photographer)

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Cal State Fullerton team show their disappointment after a 6-5 walk-off loss in the tenth inning during the game 3 of an NCAA super regionals against Washington at Goodwin Field in Fullerton on Sunday, June 10, 2018. (Photo by Kyusung Gong/Contributing Photographer)

Cal State Fullerton pitcher Tanner Bibee delivers a pitch during the game 3 of an NCAA super regionals against Washington at Goodwin Field in Fullerton on Sunday, June 10, 2018. (Photo by Kyusung Gong/Contributing Photographer)

Cal State Fullerton catcher Daniel Cope, left, tags out Washington’s Christian Jones sliding at home plate during the game 3 of an NCAA super regionals at Goodwin Field in Fullerton on Sunday, June 10, 2018. (Photo by Kyusung Gong/Contributing Photographer)

Cal State Fullerton pitcher Tanner Bibee appreciates to Mitchell Berryhill after Berryhill threw out Washington’s Christian Jones at home plate during the game 3 of an NCAA super regionals at Goodwin Field in Fullerton on Sunday, June 10, 2018. (Photo by Kyusung Gong/Contributing Photographer)

Cal State Fullerton infielder Sahid Valenzuela dives for a grounder during the game 3 of an NCAA super regionals against Washington at Goodwin Field in Fullerton on Sunday, June 10, 2018. (Photo by Kyusung Gong/Contributing Photographer)

Cal State Fullerton pitcher Tanner Bibee celebrates after getting out of third inning during the game 3 of an NCAA super regionals against Washington at Goodwin Field in Fullerton on Sunday, June 10, 2018. (Photo by Kyusung Gong/Contributing Photographer)

Washington team celebrate their walk-off win in the tenth inning during the game 3 of an NCAA super regionals against Cal State Fullerton at Goodwin Field in Fullerton on Sunday, June 10, 2018. (Photo by Kyusung Gong/Contributing Photographer)

Cal State Fullerton infielder Hank LoForte, right, loses handle of the ball as he tries to turn a double play over the slide by Washington’s Levi Jordan during the game 3 of an NCAA super regionals at Goodwin Field in Fullerton on Sunday, June 10, 2018. (Photo by Kyusung Gong/Contributing Photographer)

Cal State Fullerton infielder Hank LoForte can’t reach the grounder during the game 3 of an NCAA super regionals against Washington at Goodwin Field in Fullerton on Sunday, June 10, 2018. (Photo by Kyusung Gong/Contributing Photographer)

Cal State Fullerton’s Daniel Cope, right, looks away after a walk-off run scored by Washington in the tenth inning during the game 3 of an NCAA super regionals at Goodwin Field in Fullerton on Sunday, June 10, 2018. (Photo by Kyusung Gong/Contributing Photographer)

Washington’s Kaiser Weiss swings for a walk-off sacrifice fly during the game 3 of an NCAA super regionals against Cal State Fullerton at Goodwin Field in Fullerton on Sunday, June 10, 2018. (Photo by Kyusung Gong/Contributing Photographer)

Washington’s Willie MacIver, left, celebrates his solo homer with third base coach during the game 3 of an NCAA super regionals against Cal State Fullerton at Goodwin Field in Fullerton on Sunday, June 10, 2018. (Photo by Kyusung Gong/Contributing Photographer)

Washington dugout celebrate Willie MacIver’s solo homer in the fifth inning during the game 3 of an NCAA super regionals against Cal State Fullerton at Goodwin Field in Fullerton on Sunday, June 10, 2018. (Photo by Kyusung Gong/Contributing Photographer)

Washington dugout show their excitement during the game 3 of an NCAA super regionals against Cal State Fullerton at Goodwin Field in Fullerton on Sunday, June 10, 2018. (Photo by Kyusung Gong/Contributing Photographer)

Washington’s Alex Hardy sprints back to the dugout as he picking up a foul ball during the game 3 of an NCAA super regionals against Cal State Fullerton at Goodwin Field in Fullerton on Sunday, June 10, 2018. (Photo by Kyusung Gong/Contributing Photographer)

Cal State Fullerton’s Sahid Valenzuela and the team show their excitement after scoring three runs in the ninth inning during the game 3 of an NCAA super regionals against Washington at Goodwin Field in Fullerton on Sunday, June 10, 2018. (Photo by Kyusung Gong/Contributing Photographer)

Cal State Fullerton infielder Jake Pavletich, left, leaps to catch a foul ball over a fan’s reach during the game 3 of an NCAA super regionals against Washington at Goodwin Field in Fullerton on Sunday, June 10, 2018. (Photo by Kyusung Gong/Contributing Photographer)

Cal State Fullerton’s Jordan Hernandez gets hit on his elbow in the ninth inning during the game 3 of an NCAA super regionals against Washington at Goodwin Field in Fullerton on Sunday, June 10, 2018. (Photo by Kyusung Gong/Contributing Photographer)

Cal State Fullerton pitcher Blake Workman, left, and Daniel Cope walks towards the mound after Washington outfielder Braiden Ward scores during the game 3 of an NCAA super regionals at Goodwin Field in Fullerton on Sunday, June 10, 2018. (Photo by Kyusung Gong/Contributing Photographer)

Cal State Fullerton’s Jake Pavletich celebrates after hitting a game-tying RBI single in the ninth inning during the game 3 of an NCAA super regionals against Washington at Goodwin Field in Fullerton on Sunday, June 10, 2018. (Photo by Kyusung Gong/Contributing Photographer)

Cal State Fullerton’s Hank LoForte hits a solo homer in the tenth inning during the game 3 of an NCAA super regionals against Washington at Goodwin Field in Fullerton on Sunday, June 10, 2018. (Photo by Kyusung Gong/Contributing Photographer)

Cal State Fullerton pitcher Tanner Bibee, left, is being removed from the game during the game 3 of an NCAA super regionals against Washington at Goodwin Field in Fullerton on Sunday, June 10, 2018. (Photo by Kyusung Gong/Contributing Photographer)

FULLERTON – Getting to the College World Series is almost old hat for Cal State Fullerton, which had gone there 18 times before this season. Washington had nary a trip to the CWS.

The teams on Sunday squared off for the right to advance from Game 3 of their Super Regional.

Would it be No. 19 for the Titans, or No. 1 for Washington?

It will be the first trip for the Huskies (35-24).

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Staring a one-run deficit in the face, Washington rallied with two runs in the bottom of the 10th inning to defeat the Titans 6-5 before 3,477 at Goodwin Field.

The runs came off reliever Brett Conine, who didn’t help himself when he fielded what was supposed to be a sacrifice bunt by Levi Jordan and threw wildly past first baseman Jake Pavletich. That put runners on the corners with no outs.

AJ Graffanino hit an infield single to third to score pinch-runner Jack Johnson to tie the game 5-5, shortstop Sahid Valenzuela booted a ground ball by Willie MacIver to load the bases and Kaiser Weiss hit a sacrifice fly to left to score Jordan with the winning run, sending the Huskies into a wild celebration.

The Titans had taken a 5-4 lead in the top of the 10th on a home run by Hank LoForte.

Cal State Fullerton (36-25) rallied in the top of the ninth inning, getting consecutive RBI singles by Valenzuela, Pavletich and Chris Prescott to take a 4-3 lead, finally chasing Joe DeMers, who took a 3-1 lead into the inning.

Washington tied the game 4-4 on an RBI single by Jonathan Schiffer in the bottom of the ninth to send the game into extra innings.

DeMers took a perfect game into the seventh inning. Alex Hardy (5-2) picked up the victory with a 1-1/3 innings of relief, allowing LoForte’s home run.

Conine (4-2) absorbed the loss. The Titans committed eight errors in the three games against Washington.

LoForte was perhaps as crushed as anyone.

“I mean, it sucks losing on your home field, especially after battling and coming back, answering back and answering back again,” he said. “All we could do is move on from this and use it for next year, try and gain some momentum and just remember them dog-piling and get back to where we are.”

With DeMers mowing the Titans down with ease, the Huskies led 3-0 after six innings thanks to a home run by Nike Kahle in the fourth inning, a home run by Willie MacIver in the fifth and an RBI single by Jordan in the sixth.

The Titans finally broke DeMers’ spell when LoForte doubled to right to open the seventh, went to third on a groundout to first base by Mitchell Berryhill and scored on a sacrifice fly by Ruben Cardenas to pull within 3-1.

That set the tone for Cal State Fullerton’s ninth-inning comeback. Titans coach Rick Vanderhook compared the game to a boxing match.

“This was a heavyweight fight,” he said. “The problem is we’re lightweights. The lightweight (LoForte) got into one and put us ahead we just couldn’t control what we needed to control.

Big Joe Wainhouse led off the Washington 10th with a single off second baseman LoForte’s glove before Jordan’s bunt and throwing error by Conine.

Said Vanderhook: “He (Conine) sawed off the big guy, they put down a bunt – it was a good one, we didn’t execute and get an out – then we got a ground ball and we didn’t execute and get an out, we get another ground ball and didn’t execute and get an out and the guy hit a fly ball to win.”

Vanderhook said he never considered starting the 10th with someone other than Conine, even though he was in his fourth inning of work. Conine was heating his fastball up to 96 mph in the ninth, and did not appear gassed.

Weiss, just a freshman, will always have the knowledge he helped Washington get to its first CWS, regardless of what else happens in his career.

“I just knew I had to put it in play,” he said. “Not even square it up, just put it in play and that’s what I did.”

Afterward, Huskies coach Lindsay Meggs admitted he should have taken out DeMers when he began to struggle in the ninth. But he also said he has tremendous confidence in DeMers, who threw a perfect game against UC Riverside on Feb. 24.

“Yeah, I was a little tired, a little beat up,” DeMers said. “But like (Meggs) said, he trusts me to finish the game off and usually I do.”